MICHELSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 603 
where his friends were. He had skulls in a cluster around his belly. 
“Here these are,” he said to them. He began to distribute one 
apiece to as many as there were. He distributed two to the former 
leader. He himself had none. ‘‘Why you must hurry cutting off 
the scalps; we shall depart soon,” said (the former leader). ‘‘ They 
might follow us,” he said. ‘‘They do not know where we are,” (the 
one blessed) said to him. ‘Oh, you indeed will have full control 
as to whenever we go on our way,” he was told by (the former leader). 
Then he again stopped to see from afar where they were to go on 
their way. He took charge of their bodies on the way and saw to it 
that they had wherewith to eat. He brought back the leader in 
safety. The people rejoiced greatly that all came in safety. ‘‘ This 
fellow is why we all (?) come (back),”’ (the people) were told by the 
one formerly supposed to be the leader. ‘‘He made us all men,” 
they were told. ‘‘He took very good care of us,”’ they were told. 
““Many here are in want, as their men have not killed anything,” 
he was told. The very next day he again unconcernedly went hunt- 
ing for them. The others whom he had accompanied began to have 
a great time dancing. He himself was unwilling for any strange 
performance (i. e., ceremony) to take place.*8 “I shall not (partici- 
pate); for I simply went with you,” he said to them. He himself, 
to be sure, was the leading warrior, but he was unwilling. ‘‘ For my 
grandfather did not urge me to do so,” he thought. 
Now it seems he soon thought, ‘‘ Well, now I should desire to 
marry.’ He began to think over who might be well-behaved. And 
for a long time he kept on watching women. He himself was greatly 
desired by women, but he did not court them. Well, he kept on 
watching them for one year. Only one was quiet. She merely made 
mattings all the time, and bags, gathered firewood, had already done 
the cooking early in the morning, and had raised an abundance of 
things to eat. He never saw her merely idling any place. And he 
knew of no one who spoke to her (as if to court her). Then he 
thought, ‘‘ This is probably (the right one), though she is very unat- 
tractive, but my grandfather used to say to me again and again while 
he was still alive, ‘pretty women are of no account, they are immoral; 
the woman who stays around quietly is a good one,’”’ so he thought. 
Then he began to court her. Sure enough soon she began to speak 
to him in response. Later on, when he won her by persuasion, he 
married her. The other women were very angry. He was rebuked 
severely because his wife was unattractive. He really had married 
a very good woman. 
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